Eggs and more eggs

We have been blessed with lots of eggs this spring, as my parents now have a brood of hens in the coop.  The lovely big brown ones made for some interesting new colors of Easter eggs as we dyed them today.  My cousin, Rita, and her little girl, Karma, were able to join in on the fun.  We tried marbling some with a kit and got stunning results while the girls polka dotted theirs with some cool little cotton swabs filled with dye.

Mom was prepared with blown-out eggs, so she'll be able to put her beautiful earth-toned eggs on display, but I was really quite sad to have to stash mine in the fridge after they were done. Soon they will be devil-ed.  (Another reason to add that glass-front refrigerator to my wish list!)

After we were done with the eggs, we used the leftover dye to create some paper eggs.  Nora dropped the color onto damp watercolor paper with a medicine dropper.  After I blow-dried the paper, I cut out egg shapes, pencilled family names on, and attached them with glue to some construction paper napkin rings.  They made sweet little place "cards" for our Sunday table.  I'll share photos of our dinner table later with the finished product.

Mom told us today that the first Easter Eggs were introduced as a symbol of new life, and all were colored red to represent Christ's blood. My color cup of red drops didn't quite get past a fuschia pink, but the rainbow of colors we made together today also reminds me of another of Heaven's promises and the many signs of spring emerging all around us.  

Have a blessed Easter!